Just a few thoughts
I will concentrate on Social Justice issues during this week
Planet Earth
Ø From
the Council for Integral Ecology – The launch of its Season
of Creation events on Wednesday at 12.30pm in Gladys Elphick/Narnungga
Park, (in west parklands, entrance via Port Rd, just around the corner from
West Tce).
It would be wonderful to have
good numbers to support this, with State Government, Conservation Council and
Welcoming Australia participating, and hopefully some mainstream media. Banners
especially good!
Warm 25 degrees expected, so
bring hat and water. -- Peter Laffan
Indigenous Australians
Ø Curious about Aboriginal culture but
unsure where to start?
Myth 1: "There is one
Aboriginal culture in Australia"
It’s easy to assume that there is
one Aboriginal culture in Australia. Truth is, there were more than 250
language groups with hundreds of dialects, and many had their own regional
customs.
Think of it: Aboriginal nations
in the tropical, seasonally wet north must have had a different culture than
those in the cold and dry south, saltwater people a different one than
freshwater people.
But many media fail to point out
where an Aboriginal person comes from. They contribute to readers seeing “an
Aboriginal woman” rather than “a Bibbullmun woman” (i.e. a woman from a
south-western Australian Aboriginal nation).
Similarly, many people think there is “an Aboriginal word” for something. In
fact there once were probably more than 250 words for the same English word,
given the language variety and many dialects.
Truth: There are many different Aboriginal cultures, customs and
languages in Australia.
¯¯ Spiritual Song of the Aborigine
¯ ¯Aboriginal farewell to Soweto Gospel Choir
¯¯Wiyathul
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